English Bible Presentation Sharing - Jeremiah Book, chapter 52, verse 40 in Mkjv Version

Jeremiah 52 : 1 (MKJV)

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Jeremiah 52 : 2 (MKJV)

And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

Jeremiah 52 : 3 (MKJV)

For it was because of the anger of Jehovah in Jerusalem and Judah (until He had cast them out from His presence) that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 52 : 4 (MKJV)

And it happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it and built forts against it all around.

Jeremiah 52 : 5 (MKJV)

So the city was under attack until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

Jeremiah 52 : 6 (MKJV)

And in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, the famine was very grievous in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Jeremiah 52 : 7 (MKJV)

And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden. (And the Chaldeans lay around the city all around.) And they went by the way of the plain.

Jeremiah 52 : 8 (MKJV)

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And all his army was scattered from him.

Jeremiah 52 : 9 (MKJV)

And they took the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgments against him.

Jeremiah 52 : 10 (MKJV)

And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.

Jeremiah 52 : 11 (MKJV)

And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah. And the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

Jeremiah 52 : 12 (MKJV)

And in the fifth month, in the tenth of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, chief of the executioners, who served the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52 : 13 (MKJV)

And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house. And he burned with fire all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great ones.

Jeremiah 52 : 14 (MKJV)

And all the army of the Chaldeans with the chief of the executioners broke down all Jerusalem's walls all around.

Jeremiah 52 : 15 (MKJV)

And Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners exiled some of the poor of the people, and the rest of the people who remained in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

Jeremiah 52 : 16 (MKJV)

But Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners left some of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for farmers.

Jeremiah 52 : 17 (MKJV)

Also the Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the bronze sea in the house of Jehovah, and carried all the bronze of them to Babylon.

Jeremiah 52 : 18 (MKJV)

They also took away the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they served.

Jeremiah 52 : 19 (MKJV)

And the chief of the executioners took away the basins, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the cups; what was gold, in gold; and what was silver, in silver.

Jeremiah 52 : 20 (MKJV)

the two pillars, one sea, and twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which King Solomon had made in the house of Jehovah; the bronze of all these vessels was without weight.

Jeremiah 52 : 21 (MKJV)

And the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits. And a line of twelve cubits went around it, and the thickness of it was four fingers. It was hollow.

Jeremiah 52 : 22 (MKJV)

And a capital of bronze was on it. And the height of one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capitals all around, all of bronze. The second pillar also, and the pomegranates, were like these.

Jeremiah 52 : 23 (MKJV)

And there were ninety-six pomegranates on a side; all the pomegranates on the network were a hundred all around.

Jeremiah 52 : 24 (MKJV)

And the chief of the executioners took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

Jeremiah 52 : 25 (MKJV)

He also took out of the city a eunuch who was in charge of the men of war; and seven men from those who were near the king's person, who were found in the city; and the chief scribe of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city.

Jeremiah 52 : 26 (MKJV)

And Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

Jeremiah 52 : 27 (MKJV)

And the king of Babylon struck them and slaughtered them in Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was exiled out of his own land.

Jeremiah 52 : 28 (MKJV)

This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar exiled: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;

Jeremiah 52 : 29 (MKJV)

in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he exiled from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons;

Jeremiah 52 : 30 (MKJV)

in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners exiled seven hundred and forty-five persons of the Jews. All the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

Jeremiah 52 : 31 (MKJV)

And it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out from prison,

Jeremiah 52 : 32 (MKJV)

and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

Jeremiah 52 : 33 (MKJV)

And he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread before him all the days of his life.

Jeremiah 52 : 34 (MKJV)

And his allowance in continual allowance was given him from the king of Babylon, the matter of a day in its day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.